Table 3.
Physicians' evaluations of doctor–patient relationship (DPR) under the demographic information.
| Demographic information | n (%) | Evaluation of DPR [n (%)] | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Good | Poor | Strained | |||
| Age (years) | ≤ 30 | 67 (22.0%) | 9 (13.4%) | 54 (80.6%) | 4 (6.0%) |
| 31–40 | 117 (38.5%) | 12 (10.3%) | 95 (81.2%) | 10 (8.5%) | |
| 41–50 | 78 (25.7%) | 15 (19.2%) | 61 (78.2%) | 2 (2.6%) | |
| ≥51 | 42 (13.8%) | 11 (26.2%) | 26 (61.9%) | 5 (11.9%) | |
| X 2 | 7.183 | 7.193 | 3.760 | ||
| P | 0.066 | 0.066 | 0.276 | ||
| Gender | Male | 196 (64.5%) | 31 (15.8%) | 153 (78.1%) | 12 (6.1%) |
| Female | 108 (35.5%) | 16 (14.8%) | 83 (76.9%) | 9 (8.3%) | |
| X 2 | 0.053 | 0.059 | 0.529 | ||
| P | 0.817 | 0.809 | 0.467 | ||
| Educational background | Bachelor | 55 (18.1%) | 8 (14.5%) | 39 (70.9%) | 8 (14.5%) |
| Master | 166 (54.6%) | 22 (13.3%) | 134 (80.7%) | 10 (6.0%) | |
| PhD/MD | 83 (27.3%) | 17 (20.5%) | 63 (75.9%) | 3 (3.6%) | |
| X 2 | 2.255 | 2.488 | 6.591 | ||
| P | 0.324 | 0.288 | 0.037 | ||
| Professional title | Resident physician | 36 (11.8%) | 3 (8.3%) | 31 (86.1%) | 2 (5.6%) |
| Attending physician | 126 (41.4%) | 17 (13.5%) | 100 (79.4%) | 9 (7.1%) | |
| Associate chief physician | 68 (22.4%) | 11 (16.2%) | 53 (77.9%) | 4 (5.9%) | |
| Chief physician | 74 (24.3%) | 16 (21.6%) | 52 (70.3%) | 6 (8.1%) | |
| X 2 | 3.948 | 4.022 | 0.390 | ||
| P | 0.267 | 0.259 | 0.942 | ||